All the developers out there love Sublime Text. It has been emerging as a great text editor for learners and advanced. It is available on Linux, Mac OS and Windows. Sublime text offers features like macros, recognition of a wide variety of languages, split view etc. The editor can also be customized using different themes. Some of these themes are already popular through Notepad++.

So in this tutorial, we will teach you the installation process of Sublime Text on Linux. Recently Sublime text 3 stable version has been made available. So you can also install on your Linux box. So let's get started!

Sublime Text Pre-Installation

First, you should find out the packaging tool for your Linux Distribution.

Following is a list of packaging tools and some prominent Linux distributions that use them:

apt (Advanced Packaging Tool)
- Ubuntu, Debian, Elementary OS

pacman
- Arch Linux

yum (Yellowdog Updater, modified)
- CentOS

dnf (Dandified Yum)
- Fedora

zypper
- openSUSE

Each package manager has a bit different command. We will be using those commands to install Sublime Text 3.

Note: We will be using Elementary OS (apt-get) for the demonstration of this tutorial.

Install Sublime Text 3 In Ubuntu or derivatives

​The installation consists of three parts.

Installation of an encryption key called a GPG (GnuPG) key.

Selection of a version i.e Stable or Beta(Developer). This step will add a source/package repository to the package manager.

Finally, update the package manager with the new repository and then install Sublime Text.

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